California Indian languages [[electronic resource] /] / Victor Golla
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| Autore: |
Golla Victor
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| Titolo: |
California Indian languages [[electronic resource] /] / Victor Golla
|
| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (395 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 497.09794 |
| Soggetto topico: | Indians of North America - California - Languages |
| Linguistics | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | algic |
| american languages | |
| anthropology | |
| athabaskan | |
| baja california | |
| california | |
| chumash | |
| franciscans | |
| grammars | |
| hokan | |
| indian languages | |
| indigenous culture | |
| indigenous language | |
| indigenous languages | |
| indigenous people | |
| jesuit missionaries | |
| language | |
| languages | |
| lexical borrowing | |
| linguistic diversity | |
| linguistics | |
| monqui | |
| native american | |
| native speakers | |
| nonfiction | |
| pacific coast | |
| penutian | |
| pericu | |
| pitch | |
| postcolonial | |
| prehistory | |
| tone | |
| uto aztecan | |
| villages | |
| waikuri | |
| wintuan | |
| yukian | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PHONETIC ORTHOGRAPHY USED IN THIS BOOK -- PART 1. INTRODUCTION. Defining California as a Sociolinguistic Area -- PART 2. HISTORY OF STUDY -- PART 3. LANGUAGES AND LANGUAGE FAMILIES -- PART 4. TYPOLOGICAL AND AREAL FEATURES -- PART 5. LINGUISTIC PREHISTORY -- APPENDIX A. C. Hart Merriam's Vocabularies and Natural History Word Lists for California Indian Languages -- APPENDIX B. Materials on California Indian Languages in the Papers of John Peabody Harrington -- APPENDIX C. Phonetic Transcription Systems Widely Used in California Indian Language Materials -- APPENDIX D. Basic Numerals in Selected California Languages -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types, and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages-from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, and to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of the language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California's remarkable Indian languages. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | California Indian languages |
| ISBN: | 1-283-33186-1 |
| 9786613331861 | |
| 0-520-94952-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781474203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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